Creating and configuring storage accounts

Before you can upload any data or files to Azure storage, a storage account needs to be created. This can be done using the Azure portal, PowerShell, the CLI, ARM templates, or Visual Studio.

In this demonstration, we are going to create a storage account with PowerShell:

1. First, we need to log in to the Azure account:

Connect-AzAccount

1. If necessary, select the right subscription:

Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId "********-****-****-****-***********"

1. Create a resource group:

New-AzResourceGroup -Name PacktPubStorageAccount -Location EastUS

1. Create the storage account:

New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName PacktPubStorageAccount -AccountName packtpubstorage -Location "East US" -SkuName Standard_GRS -Kind StorageV2 -AccessTier Hot

Now that we have created a new storage account, we can install the Azure Storage Explorer tool.